Xorg crashes...

[Ryan Daly]

On 01/11/2010 09:02 AM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> On 01/11/10 05:53, Ryan Daly wrote:
>> On 01/11/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Cowell wrote:
>>> Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem.
>>>
>>> On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary is setuid-root -
>>> it acquires elevated permissions when you run it, and this breaks the
>>> process tracing (and it seems odd to me (though I haven't tried) that
>>> you were able to debug it).
>>>
>>> You could try repeating your valgrind test as root, maybe.
>>
>> I did try the strace as root, but I received errors there, too:
>>
>>
>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>>
>> X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
>> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
>> giving up.
>> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X 
>> server
>> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
>> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>>
>>
> 
> my bad didn't even think about setuid(thought valgrind
> would work without the whole root thing).
> I guess abort that idea.

No problem...  Let me know if you come up with anything else I can try...
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